s. keeling wrote: > Charlie <aries...@clearmail.com.au>: >> On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" <keel...@nucleus.com> >> shared this with us all: >> >> >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no >> >"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). >> > >> >On one of them, dict-client works as expected. It brings the result >> >up in a pager. In the other box, no pager. It just dumps it to >> >stdout. How do I change this, or track down the problem? I've looked > > Sorry it took so long to find your reply; seems to happen to me a lot. > This was useful, thanks. /etc/dictd/dict.conf contains: > > # pager most > server localhost > server dict.org > server dict0.us.dict.org > server alt0.dict.org > > I uncomment the pager line and get: > > /etc/dictd/dict.conf:17: syntax error, unexpected TOKEN_STRING, expecting > TOKEN_SERVER /etc/dictd/dict.conf:17: pager most > /etc/dictd/dict.conf:17: ^^^^^ > dict (yyerror): parse error > > > most is installed. > > >> This may help from man dict: >> >> -c file or --config file >> Specify the configuration file. The default is >> to try ~/.dictrc and /etc/dictd/dict.conf, using the first file that > > Again, thanks. > > comment it again - don't think it's part of the config, but a comment to following config lines
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